Unity Rally

On Saturday, June 10, the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-SFBA), People Acting in Community Together (PACT), Meet a Muslim, and Multifaith Voices for Peace & Justice will convene 113 civil rights and interfaith organizations at a “Unity Rally” in San Jose to respond to the hate group ACT for America’s planned anti-Muslim protests in Santa Clara and across the country.

More than 250 Bay Area residents are expected to attend the Unity Rally.

The leading sponsor of the anti-Islam protests, Brigitte Gabriel’s ACT for America, has been designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The SPLC has named “Brigitte Gabriel” as a member of the nation’s “Anti-Muslim Inner Circle.”

Gabriel has argued that, “America is at stage two Islamic Cancer.” She believes “every practicing Muslim is a radical Muslim,” a Muslim “cannot be a loyal citizen of the United States,” and that Arabs “have no soul.”

ACT for America’s planned rallies are being supported by a number of white supremacist, neo-Nazi, anti-government, and Islamophobic hate groups.